Writing

Are you looking for writing ideas? Take a tour of our list of the best creative writing prompts for writers in need of inspiration. Whether you are writing fiction, non-fiction, articles, or blog posts, you sometimes need a little help to give you a spark of an idea. Perhaps you need a new idea to…

Weak, poor, and bad words can dilute the power of your writing. Weak words to avoid in writing are usually fluff words. Writing is not an easy business. It doesn’t matter if you write fiction or short stories or you are a freelance writer of blog posts and articles. Choosing the best vocabulary and grammar…

Using multitudinous big words in your writing will make you a sesquipedalian writer. It is always a temptation for a writer to show off the vastness of their vocabulary. There is nothing wrong at all with using big, long words in your writing. But it is the use, style, placement, frequency, relevance, and the mixing…

What is passive income for writers? All of us are writing every day. For business or pleasure, we are all now sitting at a keyboard for hours and hours. You might not be writing a book, but words are continually streaming from your fingers. So why not make some money from your writing? Generating passive income…

The writing process starts with a writer’s inspiration. Read these writing quotes by famous authors to help your motivation. You can close your eyes and wait for the thoughts and feelings to arrive to get your good writing ideas flowing. But sometimes, the waiting can seem like forever. You can try to listen to music or watch…

Point of view in story writing is one of the first elements you need to know how to use as an author. Your choice of point of view (POV) decides who is telling your story to whom. All writing uses one of the choices, but very often without any thought. But if you are writing…

Writing a blog post might seem like an easy thing to do. Write 500 words on your pet topic of the day, do a quick proofread, and then hit publish. Many blogs and websites use this or a similar formula. When you start a new blog, you know you need content, so you write as many…

If you want to know how to become a better writer, start by looking for the quickest and easiest ways to improve. Try to identify some flaws you may use by habit that could weaken your writing. I’m not talking here about spelling errors, punctuation, and typos, which are always part of a first draft…

How, when, and why should you use the second-person point of view? But first, what is a point of view (POV)? There are three basic points of view that define the type of narration in literature and writing. They are the first, second, and third person. In the first person POV, the narrator uses the pronoun, I…